SanDisk Announces Release of the ULLtraDIMM SSD

SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced that its ULLtraDIMM Solid State Drive (SSD), the industry's first enterprise-class, ultra-low latency, memory channel storage solution, is now shipping for qualification with select enterprise servers. The addition of flash technology on the DRAM memory channel expands the growing penetration of flash storage technology in enterprise data centers, and complements SanDisk's existing flash-based server hardware and software storage solutions.

The award-winning SanDisk ULLtraDIMM SSD can be integrated into an existing DIMM slot. This ensures ultra-low latency in business applications and results in improved application response times. Additional ULLtraDIMM SSDs can also be added to available DIMM slots, scaling performance and capacity without impacting latency. This creates new opportunities for server system designs to support use cases that require extremely fast storage, such as High-Frequency Trading (HFT), VDI, transaction processing, virtualization and cloud computing.

"The SanDisk ULLtraDIMM SSD was designed to expand the reach of ultra-low latency flash storage throughout the data center and scale to meet the requirements of any enterprise application, no matter how bandwidth or capacity intensive," said John Scaramuzzo, senior vice president and general manager, Enterprise Storage Solutions at SanDisk. "The ULLtraDIMM SSD's linear performance scalability and innovative DIMM form factor allow organizations to deploy flash as their application requirements change, without requiring significant infrastructure investment."

SanDisk's ULLtraDIMM SSD will be used by IBM under the eXFlash DIMM brand name. IBM recently announced that the eXFlash DIMM is an option for its System x3850 and x3950 X6 servers providing up to 12.8 TB of flash capacity. IBM tested the solution under a variety of enterprise workloads and end-user scenarios. These early benchmarks showed that the eXFlash DIMM SSD achieved 5-10 microsecond write latency-the lowest in the industry.

Gartner indicates "that the advent of big data use cases is just one dynamic compounding the challenges of managing data growth, and organizations face massive volumes of information and new content types that require variable storage, security, protection and access methods." This data growth coupled with end-users' demand for instant access to information is spurring the need for a revolution in how chief information officers (CIOs) leverage storage to manage requirements while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).

For more information about SanDisk's ULLtraDIMM SSD, which was developed in partnership with Diablo Technologies, please visit www.sandisk.com/enterprise..

That name is ... it's terrible. ULLtraDIMM. Ull is wool in swedish. WoolDumb.

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It sounds like a Thun from Skyrim. If you are Dhovakin and can say ULLtraDIMM in dragonspeech, you will commence the great reproduction of DDR4 RAM for no cost, PCB's will rain down upon the greybeards, and the partay of Mondas of the year of the third emporer will begin.

I'm wondering the same thing. I mean, sticking SSD into DIMM slots that are otherwise dedicated to RAM. I don't quite get it...

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Businesses that use huge, massive databases. They don't require a great deal of RAM, however access to databases by thousands of users could be greatly improved on a server where the storage is in such a low latency area as a DIMM slot. Fill up a typical server with these a just a few dozen GB's of RAM and you have yourself a lightning fast database, at least until business hours start.